A well-known crime figure was shot dead in Dublin this week in the latest gangland killing to afflict the Irish capital. Police are linking the murder to an underworld war involving dissident Republican militants.

September 15, 2010, Wednesday

A High Court judge in Belfast ruled on Thursday that Suzanna Breen, left, a reporter for The Sunday Tribune of Dublin, did not have to hand over notes and telephone records to police officers investigating a double killing.